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  • From the point where the Seathwaite brook joins the Duddon is a view upwards into the pass through which the river makes its way into the plain of

    Sonnets XVII and XVIII 1888

  • Apr–Dec; tent £5 per night, adult £5, child over 3 years £2, under-3s free; 01453 860420For a remote wilderness camping experience, pitch up at Turner Hall Farm in the Lake District's less-visited Duddon Valley.

    The 10 best campsites for views 2011

  • In the same way, the metonymic reversal of the Duddon sonnet, because it is

    Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History 2005

  • Man to perform a self-reading which forces the thematic readings of the Boy of Winander and the Duddon sonnet to turn into readings "properly speaking" — that is, rhetorical readings in explicitly rhetorical terms — in the second layer of the lecture.

    Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History 2005

  • Boy of Winander, the substitution of a first person subject by a third person subject, the "Boy" for "I," is now said to be based on a "metaphorical substitution," just as in the Duddon sonnet the reversal of "history" (contained) and authentic temporality (container) is said to be based on a

    Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History 2005

  • De Man's readings of "The Boy of Winander" and the Duddon sonnet can be called Hölderlinian because they consist of a certain "application" of Hölderlin's "caesura" for an understanding of the reversals and substitutions that lie at the basis of both poems and that de Man, in

    Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History 2005

  • Although in the first layer reading of the Duddon sonnet the rhetorical shift is not as marked, the fact that the substitution and reversal — of history and temporality, of the poem's end and middle — are in fact a rhetorical structure is, in a sense, still more explicit, since its reversal and substitution of container and contained, enveloppant and enveloppé, amounts to the very definition of a particular trope, namely metonymy.

    Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History 2005

  • In the case of the Duddon sonnet, the poem substitutes one temporality — a movement that goes from nature to history — for another, more authentic, temporality — a movement that goes from nature to the dissolution of self and the loss of the name.

    Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History 2005

  • Thus the Cockley, a little tributary of Wordsworth's _Duddon_, is by the natives of Donnerdale invariably called Cocklety beck; whether for the sake of euphony, your readers may decide.

    Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 Various

  • Furness, between the estuary of the Duddon and Morecambe Bay, where a narrow channel intervenes between the mainland and the long low island of

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

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